Apologies for posting to the list there Scott, new copy of Thunderbird (un)helpfully did a reply-all instread of the specific to Paul, but many thanks for taking the time to respond.
TBH I get sick of the MS approach to such matters, years of bunging box model hacks into site designs kind of brings you to that kind of position! best wishes and thanks again! Steve On 07/04/2010 21:54, Scott Wilson (JIRA) wrote: > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-44?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12854704#action_12854704 > ] > > Scott Wilson commented on WOOKIE-44: > ------------------------------------ > > The workaround is to always use: > > widget.preferences.setItem("foo", "bar"); > > and never: > > widget.preferences.foo = "bar"; > > ... which won't work in IE8 but will in FF, Safari and Opera. > > So its a case of checking the widget javascript to make sure it doesn't do it. > > However, I think its a reasonable approach to do IE8 compatibility checking > on a test system before making a widget available in your main Wookie server; > its highly unlikely this preference syntax thing individual widgets will make > IE8 bork - for example some of the widgets I've done use HTML 5 features that > aren't in IE. > > So maybe just add "uses only basic preferences method syntax" to your > checklist when testing widgets. > > Meanwhile we wait and hope IE9 comes along and sorts this out ... > > >> Default widget returns js "error" when loaded into a browser >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Key: WOOKIE-44 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-44 >> Project: Wookie >> Issue Type: Bug >> Components: Server >> Environment: Windows Vista sp2, mysql 5.0, tomcat 5.5. (IE 8 & FF >> 3.5) >> Reporter: Paul Sharples >> Fix For: 0.8.1 >> >> Original Estimate: 1h >> Time Spent: 1h >> Remaining Estimate: 0h >> >> Default widgets return js "error" when loaded into a browser >> (1) Navigate to http://localhost:8080/wookie >> (2) Click "instantiate a widget" >> (3) Use the default form data, click submit >> (4) Copy/paste the url found between the <url></url> tags into another >> browser window >> (5) Js error message appears >> This also happens for instances of the discussion & vote widgets >> > -- Manchester Metropolitan University Learning Systems Manager LRT Manchester Metroopolitan University Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer etc... and so on.
